Washington asked the white people for support not equality. Booker T. Washington believed that African-Americans would not make it any where in society if they focused solely on equality. Washington wanted to have blacks trained for society and real life situations; he thought that this would improve black’s lives greatly. Instead of blacks being looked at as solely useless individuals, they would gain knowledge of real world situations and how to handle them. He did not see white and black as a difference anyways, he wanted all people to be fairly the same. Washington wanted job-education for blacks so they could learn how to do their jobs and do it properly. No more whites teaching blacks how to ‘do their job,’ but for blacks to already have the knowledge they needed to be their own bosses or someone else’s
Washington asked the white people for support not equality. Booker T. Washington believed that African-Americans would not make it any where in society if they focused solely on equality. Washington wanted to have blacks trained for society and real life situations; he thought that this would improve black’s lives greatly. Instead of blacks being looked at as solely useless individuals, they would gain knowledge of real world situations and how to handle them. He did not see white and black as a difference anyways, he wanted all people to be fairly the same. Washington wanted job-education for blacks so they could learn how to do their jobs and do it properly. No more whites teaching blacks how to ‘do their job,’ but for blacks to already have the knowledge they needed to be their own bosses or someone else’s